Last Friday night my 14 year old German Shepherd, who has hip dysplasia, walked over to the stairs to let me know he wanted to go out like he always does. He turned to look at me and lost his back end balance and slid down about 15 stairs. It was surreal as I ran to try and grab him before falling and seemed like it all happened in slow motion. I figured for sure he would break a leg on the fall, but after laying motionless at the bottom of the stairs he got up ok. That in itself was amazing.
I figured it'd be a good idea to give him some canine buffered aspirin just in case he was having any pain and gave him a couple pills.
Saturday morning, he seemed totally fucked up. His eyes were all glossy, he wouldn't get up, wasn't even moving and there was a big swollen looking bulge above his left hind leg. I figured maybe he had an internal injury and it was just now manifesting physically.
I figured ok this is it, his time has come. I was reluctant to even go to the vet anitcipating they'd say right away he's 14, has hip problems anyway, and would just say to put him down. Plus it was past my regular vet hours and I didn't want to take him to anyone else. So I said OK God if its his time please just take him in his sleep. He really had a death look by late Saturday.
Sunday was even worse. He peed all over laying down and diarrhea came out as well his back end two times. It was like when my son was born and all the crap you deal with cleaning up constantly like that with newborns. What a fucking mess.
The whole weekend was so depressing and I spent most of it crying looking at him on his death bed thinking I'm about to lose my best dog ever.
Monday morning I picked him up in my arms, put him in the back of my suv and went to the vets, figuring this was his last ride and he wouldn't be coming home.
The vet put him on an IV immediately and did 4 x-rays on him. Strangely no bones were broken and no internal injuries were showing up. The down side was she suspected the big bulge and this large mass showing on the xray was a big tumor that must have shifted position in the fall from running parallel in his body to now more sideways. The vet said this doesn't look good, though she did say there were no other signs of cancer anywhere else. He stayed overnight and I paid for a $400 ultrasound specialist (how outrageous for a 10 minute test) to come in and do another test to see what the mass was on Tuesday.
Turns out it was a tumor and the vet said he'll probably remain in this state and will rapidly deteriorate and die in 2 weeks and I might as well just put him to sleep. I looked at him and he looked at me with those big doggy eyes and we have such a tight bond I felt like he was saying mind to mind, don't do it its not my time yet.
I said to the vet lets take him home at least for his last days. She prescribed prednisone, which is the usual drug for tumor treatment, and said he probably won't be able to get up and walk again though.
I started researching all over the Net for info on dog tumors and came across a lot of pages where people were saying there are some alternative natural treatments to treat tumors that work amazingly fast. Figured wtf, let's see if a miracle will happen with my dog. And I did do a lot of praying to God this weekend as well.
When he came home he seemed picked up from being on the IV and at least able to eat again, so I mixed in the formula I had found on the Net which included:
Flaxseed Oil with cottage cheese
Ester-C
Ester-E
Selenium
and B-12
The Flax Oil is what is supposed to do the amazing healing part and it did. Within hours he started to be perky again. His eyes looked alive. He was raising his head up. And I'm thinking wow this is incredible.
Its been 3 days now on this forumula twice daily and he's walking again, went to pee and poop normally, and he just climbed up the stairs with me by his side for the first time since coming home.
All I can say is I'm flabergasted by what this simple natural healing approach has done so far to save my dog. Weird as it sounds the tumor bulge already seems smaller too. From what I've researched, Flax Oil is incredibly potent against cancer tumors.
So just want to say thank you God for answering my prayers. And, thanks to the Internet which is a life saver for finding the most incredible information.
And always remember Miracles do happen. Don't know what the future holds, but for now I've got my dog back again and for whatever time we do have left together I feel blessed from above.
